Background*

Mr. George R. Mrkonic, Jr. served as the President of Borders Group Inc., from December 1994 to January 1997. Mr. Mrkonic served as Executive Vice President of Specialty Retailing Group of Kmart Corp., where he served overall responsibility for the specialty retailing operations of Kmart including, among others, Borders Inc. and Walden Book Company Inc., from November 1990 to November 1994. He served as President of Kmart Specialty Retail Group including Sports Authority, ... Builders Square, Pace, Payless Drugs and Office Max. He served as the President of Eyelab Inc. and Herman's Sporting Goods Inc. He has held senior level executive positions with W.R. Grace and Company. Mr. Mrkonic served as a Vice Chairman of Borders Group Inc. from December 1994 to January 2002. He has been a Member of Advisory Board of Gordon Brothers Group, LLC. He has been a Director of Syntel, Inc. since June 2009 and Brinker International Inc., since September 15, 2003. He has been a Non-Employee Director of Pacific Sunwear of California Inc, since November 27, 2007. Mr. Mrkonic has been an Independent Director at Autozone, Inc. since June 7, 2006 and Galyan's Trading Company, LLC, since September 2001. He served as a Director of Cheap Tickets Inc. since March 19, 1999. He served as Director of Nashua Corp., since 2000 and served as its Lead Director. He served as a Director Borders Group, Inc. from August 1994 to December 31, 2004 & Director of Paperchase Products Ltd.- a U.K. subsidiary of Borders Group Inc. He served as a Director of Oxford Automotive Inc., since November 2000, Champion Enterprises Inc., since 1994 and Syntel, Inc. from August 1997 to June 15, 2007. He served as Director of Guitar Center Inc., from 2002 to October 2007 and also its Lead Director from 2005 to October 2007. Mr. Mrkonic holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University.

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